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Reinventing the Keyboard: The trouble with QWERTY

There is a movement astir in the mobile development community to revolutionize the way we type. The trouble these days is that typing, something that’s traditionally been done with two hands on a full size keyboard, is more frequently being executed on a small handheld device with two fingers. Everything about a hardware keyboard that makes typing easy has been effectively removed due to the hardware limitations of touch screens. The travel associated with pressing (…)

The Next Facebook

MySpace didn’t become the leading social network until mid-2006, 3 years after its launch. That year was, ironically, the peak of the service’s success. Facebook opened itself up to anybody over thirteen years of age just a few months later and the exodus hasn’t really slowed down since. While the merits of switching to Facebook over MySpace were both obvious (it doesn’t hurt my face to look at it) and subtle (Facebook is less… umm… “urban“), (…)

fordroad(dot)net

Just a quick post to let everybody know that I’ve put a small site together to provide resources about the Ford Road Industrial Landfill here in Elyria. For those of you who live around here and don’t know anything about the site, here’s an excerpt from the home page: “The Ford Road Landfill Site is a 15-acre inactive facility located on the Black River in Elyria, Ohio. The landfill was originally a ravine which has (…)